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Aeronautical Research and Development in the Commonwealth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. E. Woodward-Nutt*
Affiliation:
Ministry of Aviation

Extract

“Tadpole and Taper were great friends. Neither of them ever despaired of the Commonwealth.” Disraeli—“Coningsby”.

In looking through the list of British Commonwealth Lectures one finds that the great majority deal with the work or problems of a particular country. There are few which deal with the Commonwealth as a whole, the outstanding exception being the remarkable paper on Aviation and the Development of Remote Areas given by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh in 1954.

Type
Nineteenth British Commonwealth Lecture
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1964

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